Projects tagged
Police & Prisons
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Philadelphia Eagles’ Malcolm Jenkins Silently Responds to Press Questions by Holding Up Signs on Criminal Justice System
Read more: Philadelphia Eagles’ Malcolm Jenkins Silently Responds to Press Questions by Holding Up Signs on Criminal Justice SystemPhiladelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins had a rather unique approach to his media session on Wednesday when he chose not to answer any questions, but instead held signs in front of reporters with messages of “you’re not listening” and numerous…
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ipaidabribe.com
Read more: ipaidabribe.comipaidabribe.com is an online tool that allows the users to report when they pay bribes, are asked to pay and refuse, and when they find an honest officer. They have a well designed site with apps for mobile phones, and…
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Education not Incarceration
Read more: Education not IncarcerationWhen you design an economy to be based on short term profit to the benefit of giant corporations, the results over the long term will be a country so hostile to human life that the unreasonable and unthinkable becomes an…
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Power: From the Mouths of the Occupied
Read more: Power: From the Mouths of the OccupiedStatistics are easy to remove ourselves from. A story, you are implicated in, and you have to choose what side you are going to be on. Patrisse developed Power: From the Mouths of the Occupied in 2015 while she was…
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Beethoven’s 200-Year-Old ‘Fidelio’ Enters Today’s Prisons
Read more: Beethoven’s 200-Year-Old ‘Fidelio’ Enters Today’s PrisonsFew opera choruses are as moving as the one a group of prisoners sings in Act I of Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” Released temporarily from their cells, the inmates almost whisper a hymnlike paean to liberty: “Oh, what a joy to breathe…
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National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Read more: National Memorial for Peace and JusticeThe National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening to the public on April 26, 2018, will become the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and…
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Women of York: “Shared Dining”
Read more: Women of York: “Shared Dining”In 2013, a group of ten women incarcerated at York Correctional Institution in Connecticut, calling themselves “Women of York,” created this work of art inspired by Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party. The installation includes six entry banners and ten place…
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Takeaways from J. Cole’s New Album, KOD
Read more: Takeaways from J. Cole’s New Album, KODIn keeping with his activist turn on 2016’s 4 Your Eyez Only, J. Cole’s new album, KOD, is an exploration of addiction. The title has three different meanings that all speak to this aim: Kids On Drugs, King OverDosed, and…
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Activists protest on MRT to show solidarity for ISA detainees
Read more: Activists protest on MRT to show solidarity for ISA detaineesA group of activists took to the trains to protest the horrendous treatment that the Singapore government meted out upon 22 individuals who were detained 30 years ago under an operation that was entitled,”Operation Spectrum” with the use of the…
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Die-In at Chicago City Hall for #NoCopAcademy
Read more: Die-In at Chicago City Hall for #NoCopAcademyA group of Chicago youth staged a “die-in’ at City Hall to demand that the city defund police and fund marginalized communities instead. The youth, all members of #NoCopAcademy, also announced that the organization is suing Mayor Rahm Emanuel for…